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Game Day – Day 4

  • by Angela
  • Posted on 4 Sep ’1431 Aug ’17
  • europe
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Mercifully, we both got a decent night’s sleep at long last. I was up relatively early, as I had conference on the brain. The first sessions of talks at the conference were not very relevant […]

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Urban wanderers – Day 3

  • by Angela
  • Posted on 3 Sep ’1431 Aug ’17
  • europe
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Photos We were again somewhat slow getting started, as David was still not getting a good night’s sleep. Our plan for the day was to grab a bit of lunch in New Town and then […]

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A quiet day in Edinburgh – Day 2

  • by Angela
  • Posted on 3 Sep ’1431 Aug ’17
  • europe

Despite having fallen asleep relatively early, David did not have the smoothest night, waking up at 2 am and not able to fall asleep for a couple of hours. The guest house provided a hot […]

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A wee sojourn in Scotland – Day 1

  • by Angela
  • Posted on 2 Sep ’1431 Aug ’17
  • europe
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Photos We were fortunate to have a relatively relaxing start to our journey—taking a cab to the airport and lounging in the United Lounge with our free wine and whisky. Because we used miles to […]

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a sojourn through the lochs

  • by Angela
  • Posted on 14 Oct ’0931 Aug ’17
  • europe

Photos We awoke to a lovely breakfast of eggs and bacon and fruit. For David, he sampled black pudding, a Scottish specialty, which is essentially pig’s blood sausage. The flavour transported him back to Colorado […]

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A wee roadtrip across the Highlands

  • by Angela
  • Posted on 13 Oct ’0931 Aug ’17
  • europe

Photos After a brief flurry of packing and breakfast toast, David and I were out the door, making a quick stop at the printing place to print off some documents needed for the car rental. […]

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Castles, palaces and scones…oh my!

  • by Angela
  • Posted on 11 Oct ’0931 Aug ’17
  • europe

Photos So my endeavour to feel less sick seemed to pay off in the morning, as my sore throat had largely subsided; however, my sinuses were definitely feeling stuffed. We had actually slept in ’til […]

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Blustery walks

  • by Angela
  • Posted on 9 Oct ’0931 Aug ’17
  • europe

Photos It was an early morning start (not intentionally, one of the perks of sharing a wall with a youngin). After a quick meal of toast and jam, we headed off on our walk towards […]

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Academic flavour

  • by Angela
  • Posted on 9 Oct ’0931 Aug ’17
  • europe

Photos We awoke at a surprisingly decent hour in the morning, enjoying a spot of toast and jam before heading out to D’s first meeting of the day. We stopped briefly at the Victor Hugo […]

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Off to tartan country

  • by Angela
  • Posted on 7 Oct ’0931 Aug ’17
  • europe

Travel days are often quite busy and exciting, filled with last-minute packing and frantic emails to resolve unfinished business. Our “off to the UK” travel day was particularly fun-filled as I had still had testing […]

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